Hugh Schofield

Justice for Comte, they chanted, and also antifa assassins.

The antifas, antifascist groups, are killers.

Among the crowd were masked men in black and at the end, at the place where the student was killed, a line of activists held flaming torches in front of a banner reading Goodbye Comrade alongside a Christian symbol.

The imagery was of the ultra-right and those attending were members from across France of various small traditionalist, Catholic, nationalist and neo-fascist groups with which Comte de Ronc associated.

Significantly, the hard-right populist National Rally, France's biggest party,

kept well away from today's rally.

They used to raise funds for their own benefit.

They used to raise funds for their own benefit.

In 2017, fellow doctors began to become suspicious.

There was an incident in which a young woman was found to have had emergency procedures required during an operation because something had gone wrong.

What was doubly suspicious was that

Dr. Pesce had moved to another clinic for a time and then come back.

And the pattern of problems like this had followed him.

So they'd been at this one clinic, you know, at a high rate of these troubling events.

They'd stopped.

and then moved to this other clinic where he was at, and then he'd come back and they'd resumed at this first clinic, and then stopped when, in 2017, he was disbarred from acting pending this trial.

of patients, patients who have been looked after, not by him directly, but by fellow anesthetists.

And then he was able to intervene in many of them as the kind of savior.

His prestige was boosted.

That of his fellows was gravely damaged.